In the spacious cultivation room, Liu Yu sat quietly cross-legged.
Rich azure spiritual light shone across his rugged, masculine face, while Nascent Soul spirit pressure spread unchecked throughout the room.
Within his body, the Azure Yang Art Tenth Layer circulated continuously, refining the medicinal effects and vast spiritual power released by the jade spirit mushroom.
First, seventy-two cycles through his physical body preliminarily refined the spiritual power into magic power. Then thirty-six cycles through his Nascent Soul State refined it into true Nascent Soul magic power.
Different realms demanded different levels of magic power "purity," and the strength of that magic power differed as greatly as heaven and earth.
Thus, as one's realm rose, the number of greater celestial circuits required by a cultivation art gradually increased.
Each circulation of the art had to remove more "impurities" from the spiritual power and magic power, further condensing the latter.
If magic power purity at the Qi Refining realm was generally ninety percent, then at the Foundation Establishment realm it exceeded ninety-five percent.
At the Golden Core realm, it was at least ninety-nine percent, and could reach ninety-nine point nine nine percent.
Once purity reached ninety-nine point nine nine percent, a Golden Core cultivator seeking to purify their magic power further could no longer rely on themselves alone. They had to draw on outside aid, such as spirit treasures or precious natural materials.
At the Nascent Soul realm, however, greater celestial circuits through the Nascent Soul State could easily raise purity to ten decimal places.
Compared with the Golden Core realm, this was a qualitative transformation.
From gaseous magical power to liquid magical power, then to the solid-state magical power of the Golden Core realm, every transformation brought a qualitative change. "Magic power strength," which largely determined might, increased dramatically.
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